MiniKorg-700S

The MiniKorg-700S is an old and simple monophonic analog keyboard from Korg. It is a dual-oscillator synth related to Korg's first monosynth, the single oscillator MiniKorg-700. Most of the controls are located in an odd place beneath the keyboard so as to make room above the keyboard for a sheet-music stand. Some controls have bizarre names like Bender, Traveler and Expand for the auto-bend, filter and envelope, respectively.

MiniKorg-700

It has three ring modulators for some strange sounds and noises. Sometimes a decent bass sound for techno music can be achieved using the MiniKorg's hi-pass and low-pass filters. The two oscillators can be de-tuned and they offer triangle, sawtooth and square waveforms. There are some strange analog effects built-in as well such as portamento, a rudimentary repeat-delay, auto-bend (bender), vibrato and Chorus and Noise waveforms.

This limited and quirky little synth is a nice collectors item but rarely seen or used anymore. It has relatively no performance controls like pitch/mod, but for ancient analog technology, this synth is quite stable and reliable. It is still quite capable of generating a very analog bass sound, thud, thump, growl or squeal. The wood side-panels and large primary colored knobs and sliders are a sure sign of Vintage status. It has been used by The Cure, ComaTeens, Kitaro, Human League, N-Trance, Vangelis, the Normal, Stevie Wonder, The Cars and Paul Hardcastle.

strummer

May 24, 2012 @ 7:33 pm

I had a "700" back in the 1970s and combined it with an old continual loop echo machine. I was able to create, by utilising the loop and therefore continually overdubbing the sounds, material very similar to that which Tangerine Dream were doing at the time. wonderful piece of equipment! I wish I had that gear now.

Justin Havu

April 13, 2012 @ 11:52 am

Sold in the US by Unicord under the Univox name, and was given the model number K2 (the MiniKorg 700 was the K1.)

donsynthy

April 3, 2012 @ 2:04 am

an absolute classic analog synth. If you have tried or own one of these you know what I'm talking about! it has a very phat buzzy organic sound. rock solid tuning and it just breathes disco, electro funk and techno. one of my favourite synths ever.

Chris

March 5, 2012 @ 10:35 am

I have a 700 for sale if any one is still looking? I've had it around 12 years but mostly been carting it around for the last 6 and it now doesn't want to switch on. Not entirely sure why as worked fine beforehand. It also now has one broken key. I no longer use or need it so thought someone might find it useful here as I've seen a few requests. Mail me at chrisatkombine.co.uk

henrik

December 22, 2011 @ 4:01 pm

Rex the Dogs first single consist entirely of the MiniKorg700s. Are we witnessing a renaissance for this magic synth? He uses the Minikorg as his main synth and it´s quite amazing what he gets out of it,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYHFR7pKleU

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